Comments on: Amazon launches European S3

By: Jungle Dave

Jungle Dave — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:58:32 +0000

Please see our latest blog post (at the end) for updated news about EU support:

http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/02/19/buckets-buckets-everywhere/

By: David Williams

David Williams — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:49:28 +0000

I would also like to lend my voice to adding support for EU S3 buckets. I have access to an extremely high-bandwidth educational service here in Canterbury, and the difference in transfer speeds (using S3Fox) between the EU and US servers is about a factor of ten.

Obviously, this does require the EC2 rollout to happen in the EU as I probably wouldn’t use the service without the advanced features that you mention anyway.

Cheers for a great product, keep it up, and here’s to the EU rollout of EC2

By: Jungle Disk » Blog Archive » Buckets buckets everywhere…

Jungle Disk » Blog Archive » Buckets buckets everywhere… — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:51:12 +0000

[…] Disk 2.0 buckets will also allow us to offer the option of using the European S3 endpoint for European customers while maintaining the ability to easily rename and move files. Jungle Disk […]

By: Stefan Seiz

Stefan Seiz — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:24:54 +0000

Yes, i would prefer a EU Bucket too for latency reasons. Typically we have around 8 ms latency within Europe and >100 ms across the Atlantic, so a EU Bucket might well speed things up quite a bit.

By: Lars

Lars — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:58:52 +0000

I would really like Jungle Disk to work with the European servers. I definitely prefer speed over features.

By: eirikso

eirikso — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:39:05 +0000

And of course I need to mention that my test was done FROM Oslo, Norway - yeah, you know. That strange small country in the northern part of Europe. At 10:50 PM CET

ADSL2+ 20 mbit, but usually clocking at just above 10 mbit

By: eirikso

eirikso — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:37:32 +0000

I just did a test on a 100MB file. One from Amazon S3 Europe and one from Amazon S3 US:

100 MB file from EU:
0:01:43 @ 1015 kB/s

100 MB file from US:
0:03:30 @ 503 kB/s

So, 20% more expensive, twice the speed. Here’s the complete thread with tests:
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=18355&tstart=0

By: James

James — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:58:17 +0000

It would be great to see support for the amazon servers in europe!

By: Juan

Juan — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:13:30 +0000

You are wrong: Amazon.com is a participant in the Safe Harbor program: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=468496#harbor

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:11:57 +0000

Legally speaking, EU companies are not allowed to use the American S3 to backup their files, since the US privacy laws aren’t as strict as Europe’s.

I will be happy to install JungleDisk once it is compatible with Amazon’s European data center.